How to distinguish stressed closed syllables A syllable is a vowel, but it is not clear whether it is the vowel in the letter or the vowel in the phonetic alphabet. For example, map is divided by the letter A or the vowel phoneme in the phonetic alphabet

How to distinguish stressed closed syllables A syllable is a vowel, but it is not clear whether it is the vowel in the letter or the vowel in the phonetic alphabet. For example, map is divided by the letter A or the vowel phoneme in the phonetic alphabet


Of course, it's in phonetic alphabet, but vowels are usually pronounced, so you can look at the words!
A closed syllable is usually a vowel in the middle and a consonant on each side, such as map big dog box
The open syllable is usually a consonant with E, such as bike cake code knife